On February 19, the seventh year of the Great Cause, Yang Guang, the son of heaven of the Great Sui, went north from the Jiangdu, crossed the river into the Yongji Canal by dragon boat, and on the 26th, Yang Guang officially issued an edict to inform the feudal lords of the world that he would drive the royal expedition and crusade against Goryeo!

At the same time, he also ordered Yuan Hongsi, the governor of Youzhou, to build 300 ships in Donglai Haikou, and complete them within two months, otherwise the relevant personnel would be punished.

The officials supervised the project, the craftsmen and servants did not dare to have the slightest neglect, stood in the water day and night to work, did not dare to stop and take a little rest, they all gave birth to maggots from the waist down, according to the records of later generations, people who died of illness and exhaustion, three or four out of ten.

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The time has come to the late spring in March, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and the scenery is charming, but now the people in Donglai Haikou may not have the heart to enjoy these beautiful scenery.

Because at this time, almost every house in this neighborhood has hung white banners to summon spirits, and the sound of crying is endless all day long.

"Alas, so many people died before the battle was fought, it's really hard to resemble what the world will become after this battle is over." Li Yin stood on the watchtower of the camp at this time, numbly looking at the corpses floating by from time to time, and his heart was full of emotion.

Yang Guang, the emperor, has the ability, but he seems to be so eager to do anything, you ask someone to do it, why do you have to add a deadline of only two months?

This is not a single case, the construction of the capital Luoyang, the construction of the Grand Canal and other huge projects, were built in a very short period of time, and the casualties are also countless.

Although he knew that this war against Goryeo would be a shocking disaster for the people of the Great Sui Dynasty, Li Yin couldn't change anything, he was just a small brigade commander.

With Yang Guang's paranoid character, even if Nayan Su Wei and other important ministers of the court tried to persuade him, it would definitely be useless.

What Li Yin can do now is to seize the time to train his soldiers to deal with the cruel war that follows.

Li Yin and those subordinates who have followed him since Cuiyun Peak have sufficient skills and experience in land warfare, but they are still outsiders in water warfare, and they just made up for this shortcoming before Yang Guang's next order arrived.

On April 15, Yang Guang's chariot finally arrived at the Linshuo Palace in Zhuo County, and the civil and military officials who accompanied the chariot were ordered to be properly housed. The war is in full swing, and the center of the world seems to have suddenly moved to this northeastern land.

In May, he ordered Henan, Huainan, Jiangnan and other places to manufacture 50,000 military vehicles and send them to Gaoyang for loading clothing and armor curtains, and ordered the soldiers to pull the carts themselves; 300,000 people from Henan and Hebei were requisitioned again to supply military supplies.

In July, Yang Guang issued another edict to levy and send people south of the Jiang and Huai rivers and ships to transport rice from the granaries of Liyang and Luokou to Zhuo County, and the ships transporting grain were connected from end to end for more than 1,000 miles.

Hundreds of thousands of people carrying weapons, armor and siege equipment often crowded the roads day and night.

Because there is a time limit for transporting supplies, and beheadings must be cut off after the time limit, so that on this road to the north, there are many people who are dying of illness and fatigue on each other's pillows, and the stench of dead bodies is emitted everywhere on the road.

In the seven years since he entered the Great Cause, the whole world has been disturbed by the attack on Goryeo, and under this unrest, danger is brewing little by little, and when it explodes, the power will be beyond the likeness of people.

However, all of this has little to do with Li Yin, because at this time, he feels that he is about to be idle. He has been stationed with the army in Donglai Haikou for more than four months.

As the advance base of the naval divisions attacking Goryeo, the naval divisions from other places have come to rendezvous almost every day in Dongnaehai Haikou in recent months, and now there are nearly 50,000 troops.

However, Yang Guang never gave other orders, and the entire army of 50,000 was wasted here, spending countless amounts of food every day.

Now the supreme commander of the 50,000-strong army is Rongguo Gong Laihu'er, who has just been appointed and dismissed by Yang Guang as the head of the Pyongyang Provincial March, and also the inspector of Dongnae-gun, and is fully responsible for the attack on Goryeo by water.

Lai Hu'er's ancestral home is Xinye, and the surname is a big surname in Xinye, and since the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it can be said that there are many talents. But Laihu'er was born in a poor family, and his parents died when he was a child, and he has no prominent family background, and his current status is all due to his own hard work.

At this time, Laihu'er was looking at the detailed map from Dongnae to Goryeo, there were many islands of different sizes on this map, and on this map, many islands were marked with a big red cross, and the islands marked with a back fork were all occupied by Goryeo.

Since the Goryeo king Gao Yuan refused to come to Luoyang to meet Yang Guang, he has been actively reorganizing his army for war, fortifying cities and fortifications on land, and building many strongholds on many islands on the waterway, in order to hinder the invasion of the Great Sui naval army.

At this time, Lai Hu'er thought that without the edict of the Son of Heaven, the sailor naturally could not act rashly, but it was not okay to do nothing like this, so why not send some small troops to uproot the strongholds on these islands one by one, and remove obstacles for the future march?

He still has this right as the head of the Pyongyang Provincial March. After thinking of this, Laihu'er had already made up his mind, and he used a brigade of 200 people as the unit for this operation.

Laihu'er asked someone to bring the rosters of each unit, and circled the names of several brigade commanders in a row, when his eyes passed the words "Li Yin", he paused, and when he saw Li Yin's profile again, his disdain flashed, "Hmph, it's another incompetent person who got in by the family!" ”

He wanted to skip Li Yin immediately, but then he thought again: "Such an incompetent person, I feel upset when I look at it, what is the use of coming?" It's better to let him go to the battlefield quickly and die early. ”

So, with a wave of the brush, Li Yin's name was circled.

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"Brigade Marshal Li Yin receives the order!" The spirited herald shouted.

Li Yin was eating at this time, and hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks and knelt down on one knee.

The herald read out the king's order and said: "Brigade commander Li Yin, since receiving the military order, immediately order the men and horses of the headquarters to uproot the enemy's stronghold at sea, there must be no mistake!" ”

"The last general will take the order!" Li Yin shouted, took the order from the herald, and then stood up.

After the herald got on his horse and left, Li Yin stretched his waist, made a noise in the joints, and said to Zhou An: "Now I finally have something to do!" ”

Zhou An said: "The brothers have trained like this, it's time to test their skills with real knives and guns." ”

Not long after, a "Huanglong" warship that could accommodate more than 100 soldiers and two "Mong" warships that could accommodate 50 soldiers each slowly made their way out of Donglai Haikou......